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scrinchy

scrinchy adjective: scrunchy; creased or wrinkled.

Adjective

scrinchy (comparative more scrinchy, superlative most scrinchy)

  1. (informal) scrunchy; creased or wrinkled
    • The bright-browed man chuckled, then did his scrinchy eyeball thing again.2001, Robert Dunn, Pink Cadillac, page 147
    • She is making that scrinchy face again […]2005, Rowing News, volume 11, number 12, page 94
  2. (informal) stingy, miserly
    • And to me alone he said, "Just meeting the taxes ain't easy."
      "Don't be scrinchy, Father," Lisa said. "Momma needs for that stone to be there."2000, Merle Drown, The Suburbs of Heaven, page 19
  3. (informal) poky, small, cramped
    • Jonathan's dad, Tom, lives in this scrinchy, little farmhouse in the country, lives here with his two monster hounds, who lie now sleeping at Ruby's feet.2017, Linda McCullough Moore, An Episode of Grace

Forms of scrinchy

comparativemore scrinchy
superlativemost scrinchy

Questions about scrinchy

What does scrinchy mean?
Scrinchy means scrunchy; creased or wrinkled.
What part of speech is scrinchy?
Scrinchy is an adjective.

Words near scrinchy in the dictionary

  1. scrimshawing
  2. scrimshaws
  3. scrimshon
  4. scrimshorn
  5. scrimy
  6. scrinchy
  7. scrine
  8. scrines
  9. scringe
  10. scringed
  11. scringes

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